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Down 7-0 with two out in the ninth inning at the time, Giancarlo Stanton’s 27th homer Thursday was inconsequential in terms of the outcome, but it wasn’t devoid of significance. Stanton had gone 10 career games at PNC Park without putting a pitch in the seats there. It was the only stadium where he’d played at least six games and not hit at least one home run. Stanton has played in 27 different stadiums and now has at least one homer in 20 of them, including all 15 current National League Parks in addition to Dolphins Stadium and Hiram Bithorn in Puerto Rico. The American League venues where Stanton has found the seats: Fenway Park, Tropicana Field, Safeco Field, Minute...

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Down 7-0 with two out in the ninth inning at the time, Giancarlo Stanton’s 27th homer Thursday was inconsequential in terms of the outcome, but it wasn’t devoid of significance.
Stanton had gone 10 career games at PNC Park without putting a pitch in...

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Marcell Ozuna for the last week and a half has hit like a cleanup hitter. Manager Mike Redmond saw fit to bestow him with the title Monday.
Ozuna for the first time this season saw his name in the four-hole before Monday's late game...

In Angels' manager Mike Scioscia's estimation, Christian Yelich would have been 8 or 9 years old at the time. A Southern California native, Yelich attended a Scioscia camp in nearby Conejo Valley.
"I do remember," Scioscia said, before Monday's...

For six months they shared the wide eyes and wild cheers of witnesses from a grateful region that fell in love with its baseball supermen.
Standing atop the mound at Dodger Stadium, Clayton Kershaw would throw faster than a speeding bullet. Racing...

A popular gathering place for proud parents inside Angel Stadium on Saturday was a souvenir shop, where glossy programs with color photographs of President Obama on the cover were flying off the shelves.
Among those waiting to buy several copies at $5...

The boss wanted picks for baseball's annual awards. We'll get to them, but we had a few questions first.
Will L.A. get to see the Dodgers on TV next season?
We're going to say yes, with guarded optimism.
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The Angels on Friday ended negotiations with the city of Anaheim over a new Angel Stadium lease, frustrated by the inability to finalize a deal more than a year after there was a framework for an agreement.
The Angels have held extensive discussions with...

KEY MOMENT: Down by two runs in the ninth, Kole Calhoun double for his third hit of the game and Mike Trout hit a towering two-run homer to center field, his fifth of the season, against left-hander Sean Doolittle to pull the Angels even, 9-9. But Oakland...

Many players would be thrilled if even a few weeks of their career mirrored that of probable Hall of Fame member Albert Pujols, but David Freese might be following one part of the script a little too closely.
Freese and Pujols have much in common. Both...

TURNING POINT: Chris Iannetta’s 12th-inning homer snapped the Angels’ two-game losing streak and gave them two extra-inning wins on a six-game homestand in which four games went to overtime -- the first time that’s happened since June 1975. The Angels...

Apparently, Josh Shaw has not learned the lessons of history from Richard Nixon, Pete Rose, Lance Armstrong, Bernie Madoff, and baseball players from the steroid era. Mr. Shaw, a strategy for concealing wrongful conduct by orchestrating a deliberate...

The Bud Selig farewell tour is about to hit Southern California, with stops in San Diego and Anaheim this week and Dodger Stadium next week. In the five months before he officially hands the commissioner's gavel to Rob Manfred, there will be no shortage...

The San Francisco Giants trail the Dodgers in the National League West standings, but they are second to none in one category: home ballpark. According to Los Angeles Times sportswriters Kevin Baxter, Mike DiGiovanna, Dylan Hernandez and Bill Shaikin,...

Josh Hamilton was still getting the hang of being a big leaguer.
Hamilton showed up in the majors belatedly but abruptly, after a three-year suspension for drug use and 15 games in the minor leagues. The Cincinnati Reds took a flier on him, and he hit 19...

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Angels owner Arte Moreno described negotiations with Anaheim for a new stadium lease as "at a stalemate," but stopped short of saying he was aggressively pursuing a new home for the team.
"We haven't crossed that line...

Before starting a three-game series in Denver on Friday, the Dodgers, as expected, made a roster move.
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The day after one of the greatest catches in Angel Stadium history, the discussion Saturday was if it was the best ever by an Angel.
Manager Mike Scioscia said no, ranking J.B. Shuck's fourth-inning robbery of Jose Bautista's home run — in which the...

The Angels had a chance Saturday to know they're not alone in the company of teams performing short of expectations.
The last-place Toronto Blue Jays went as far as showing their partner in suffering that things could be even worse.
In a 7-3 Angels'...

TEMPE, Ariz. — Angels owner Arte Moreno met with officials from the City of Tustin last week to discuss the possibility of building a new baseball stadium, a team spokesman confirmed Saturday.
One potential site would be the decommissioned Marine Corps...